Female Midlife Crisis Stages

Denial

The first stage is denial where the person knows that they are getting old, their body is not working like it use to and they are wearing out so they are living in denial of these things.

Anger

The 2nd stage is anger and the person is generally quite annoyed that they have been assigned this older person life so they begin lashing out at everyone not realising that people their age are going through a similar experience.

Replay

Trying to catch up on lost time, searching for their youth and even having affairs. They will do things out of character which is not considered normal.

Depression

Because the person has not addressed the problem adequately in the first 3 stages during this 4th stage they feel like a failure and become depressed with low self-esteem.

Withdrawal

This 5th stage occurs because the person looks at all the damage they have done and they come face to face with reality. They can rebuild broken relationships or become withdrawn.

Acceptance

The 6th stage has been broken into 3 stages. The realisation of what they have done, the temptation to go back and continue the brokenness and an archway where they need to face their fears.

It will take time for things to settle down but it will happen. The thing is that these stages of midlife crisis can have a reduced impact if you embrace a way to ride the wave.

Female Midlife Crisis Solutions

Kate Hilton at the Huffington in 2013 wrote these fantabulous five ways to survive these female midlife crisis stages. You’ll love them!

Take up a sport

I personally think this is a great idea although my idea of a sport will be more along the lines of dancing, not golf. There is always hiking or mountaineering.

Embrace your creative side

If you are like me and the last time you took out the sewing machine to sew a dress from scratch was over 20 years ago this may sound scary.

No need to go that far as you can find something more simple like creating social media images.

Hang out with other women

This is a brilliant idea and it is something that I do remotely. I am part of at least 10 Facebook Groups for women only ranging from the simple to the outrageous.

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Make a Wild Permanent Gesture of Size

At this point, Kate gave the example of doing something that has long-term benefits that range somewhere between a haircut and divorce like straightening your teeth or laser hair removal.

Start a club or as she calls it an “Outrage-of-the-month-club” (OOTMC)

It is like a dinner club where you and a group of ladies frequently for dinner but only if everyone can attend. I think it is a brilliant idea.

Youthful health

Katherine Shaw from independent Femme suggests that should focus on being healthy from the inside out. As opposed to wearing mini skirts or wearing revealing outfits.

Start a blog

I decided to add a 7th item to Kate’s list which is to start a blog. You can do all 5 of the other things that Kate suggests but starting a blog has to be the most rewarding way to survive midlife crisis for a woman.

If you enjoy reading chances are you will be a good writer.

Conclusion

As you can see female midlife crisis stages are real for some people and if we fail to plan then we are planning to fail at coping with a midlife crisis.

For some people, it can be a big deal and Kate’s suggestions may not help so depending on the severity my advice is to always seek professional help if that is what you need.

If however, you are bored to tears and would like to do something that can distract you from doing something you will regret then you can always start a side hustle and become an entrepreneur.

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